Seed Funds Sprouting
On the 13th May 2022 the CHASE Climate Justice Network hosted ‘Seed Funds Sprouting’. The virtual event provided recipients of CHASE Climate Justice Small Grants the opportunity to share the results of their individual projects. The event was attended by members and guests of the Network who were guided between the projects in an interactive landscape designed by artist Andrea Khora.
The six winning projects addressed issues of climate justice in responses to a call for proposals published in 2021. The projects covered a wide range of topics including environmental resonance, human-animal relationships, food sovereignty and online communities of care. The winning grants employed highly creative and interdisciplinary approaches that encompassed film, audio, zine and participatory community work.
The following projects were featured at the event:
- Amrita DasGupta: Dare to Outlive Anthropocene: Changing Climate and Pouncing Tigers in India’s Sundarbans
- Effie Makepeace and Khamalathu Arts: Kusintha kwa nyengo, kusinthanso ifeyo The climate changes, we also change
- Jemma Stewart, Jessica Saxby: Second flowerings: reimagining the Victorian language of flowers for today
- Heather McKnight and Audrey Verma: A digital carekit: Developing activist communities of care online
- Marleen Boschen, Sterling Mackinnon: The Sonics of Rupture: Soundscapes of Collective Environments and Fractured Geologies Sound Pieces
- Åsa Sonjasdotter and Naomi Hennig: Trans-local perspectives on land and food-sovereignty. Dialogues around the Zaptista journey in Europe
The outputs of the projects highlight exciting new ways for arts, humanities and social science research to address issues of climate justice, whilst considering intersectionality, care and building solidarity with those resisting environmental injustice.
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